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G. T. GH'APMAN. SPRING ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

No. 477,622. Patented June 21, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE T. CHAPMAN, OF l/VHITE PLAINS, ASSIGNOR OF' ONE-HALF TO WVM. HARVEY MERRITT, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

SPRING ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,622, dated June 21, 1892..

Application filed January 28, 1892. Serial No. 419.503. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: different requirements of the case,but so that Be it known that I, GEORGE T. CHAPMAN, said brackets will allow the spring to cona citizen of the United States, and a resident tract and elongate freely, which is accomof White Plains, in the county of Wcstchesplished by the joints of said brackets with ter and State of New York, have invented certhe buckboard -body or side bar, as f, and

tain new and useful Improvements in Spring with the spring, as g, being so that they Attachments for Vehicles, of which the folmay vibrate slightly on the fastening bolts lowing is a specification. or rivets connecting them with the body and My invention relates more particularly to springs, which allows the two brackets con- [0 buckboard and sidebar wagons, but is also necting the body and the spring to swing apart 6o applicable to others, and also to street-cars when the spring elongates and toward each having semi-elliptic springs supportingthe otherwhenthespring shortens, thesaidbrackbodies on the running-gear; and it consists in ets consisting of short steel plates extend an improved mode of connecting the bucking laterally to the spring from each end,

I 5 board or body to the spring or springs for where they are jointed to it, to the point of greater facility of the elongations and conconnection with the buckboard-body or other tractions of the springs lengthwise and easier part at such length as is suitable for aifordmotions of the body than as commonly mounting the requisite play of the springs. The ed on the springs, all as hereinafter fully desaid brackets are bent suitably to extend 2o scribed reference being made to the accomdownward from the plane of the under side panying drawings,in whichof the buckboard or other part to which they Figure 1 is a front elevation of part of a are attached to have connection with the backboard-wagon in which the buckboard is spring sufficiently lower to prevent contact of mounted according to my invention. Fig. 2 the buckboard or other part with the spring.

25 is a side elevation of a portion of the appa- In the case of the buckboard the brackets ratus of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail of Figs. 1 are mounted directly on the ends of the spring, and 2, in section, on line 00 00, Fig. 2, enlarged. as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 11; but in the case of a Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a portion of a spring suspended from the side bars, as in wagon, showing the body mounted on aspring Figs. 4 and 5, the bearings of said brackets 0 in accordance with my invention, the spring on the spring are located at suitable distances So being supported on side bars in a common from the ends, and in another arrangement way. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of part of the for side bars the brackets may be supported apparatus of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail of Figs. at one end in a clip h, pendent from the side 4 and 5, in section, on line y y, Fig. 5, enlarged. bar, and have the ends of the spring supported 3 5 Fig. 7 is a front elevation of part of a side-bar on them, as in Figs. 7 and 8, the said ends of wagon, showing the side bars mounted on the the brackets resting in said clips, being free spring in accordance with myinvention. Fig. to vibrate therein, and may be mounted on a 8 is a side elevation of part of the apparatus roll a, as shown in Fig. 10, to work easy. At of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a detail of Figs. 7 and S the joints of the brackets with the springs 40 on line 2 a, Fig. 8, enlarged. Fig. 10 is a deone has a concave seat, as k, and the other a tail of the apparatus of Figs. 7 and 8, in eleconvex bearing, as Z, when one bears directly vatiou, on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 11 is a on the other, as in Fig. 9, to facilitate such plan view of part of the buckboard of Figs. rocking motion of one on the other as the 1 and 2. parts may be subject to in use. A rubber 45 Thebuckboard a,body or boxb,andside bars washer, asj, may beintroduced between the o of a wagon, or it may be the body of a car parts at the joints, if desired, in which case or other carriage, will according to my inventhe bracket will have a recessed seat, as m, to tion be mounted on the spring d, through the confine the rubber washer. instrumentality of bearing-brackets, as e, in To prevent the body or buckboard from 50 various modes of application, according to the lurching sidewise on the bearing-brackets, 10o

Spring.

stops, as 2', Figs. 1, 2, 4, and 5, may be employed-to confinethe'body or-buckboardcentrally on the brackets. In the arrangement of Figs. 7, 8, and 10 the clips h confine the brack-. ets, so as to prevent such action.

When the bracket is to connect with a; spring suspended at the ends, as in Figs. 4 and 5, or in any way rendering it desirable to avoid perforating the spring for the fas-' tening bolts or rivets,-the brackets may be;

forked at the end connecting with the spring The bracket and-the spring mayboth have;

:conveX-bearing parts in contact, if desired, to? ,facilitatethe rocking motion. 1

1. The body of a carriage or other vehicle mounted on asemi-elliptic spring by laterallyextending bearing-brackets connected at or near one end to the spring and at or near the other end to the body with joints permitting said bearing-brackets to vibrate sidewise, substantially as described.

2. The body of a carriage or vehicle mounted on a semi-elliptic spring by laterally-extendin gbearing-brackets connected at or near one end to the body by a joint permitting vibration and near the other end connected to the spring and thereathaving support allowing it lateral play, substantially as described.

Signed atNew York city, in the county and State of New York, this 22d day of January, A. D. 1892.

GEO. T. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

W. J. MORGAN, CLINTON E. WHITNEY. 

